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Sri Lanka links up with Korea for rural development

The MoU will be signed between Ministry of Public Administration, Department of External Resources and the foundation

March 28, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka likely to see further beef price hike over lump disease in North

The disease is also slightly spreading to other provinces in Sri Lanka

March 16, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka power regulator chief sues colleagues, state-run CEB against tariff hike

The CEB move has mainly burdened lower unit consuming users, the official CEB data showed.

March 10, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka health technicians on sick note campaign

"We expect more than 100,000 workers to join with us."

March 7, 2023 2 min read
Sri Lanka to conduct population census from Dec 19 to 23

The data will be used in the country's national policy formulation

Sri Lanka’s Durdans, India’s Astron to train paramedical professionals

Sri Lanka’s Durdans Hospital has tied up with India’s Astron Institute of International Studies to offer p...

January 10, 2019 2 min read

Halloween Horror turns sour for Sri Lanka mall

Sri Lanka's latest upscale mall Colombo City Centre (CCC) today issued a statement that it has stopped a horror house an...

November 1, 2018 1 min read

High risk of political control in Sri Lankan media, study finds

ECONOMYNEXT –Print media owners in Sri Lanka have the most political affiliations, the Media Ownership Monitor, a...

October 29, 2018 2 min read

Qatar to use biometrics to speed up visas for Sri Lankan migrant workers

ECONOMYNEXT – The Qatar government will next week launch a new visa process system in Sri Lanka that includes bio...

October 5, 2018 2 min read

ADB technical aid to make Sri Lankan cities more liveable

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will give a 10 million dollar technical assistance loan for a facility to improve the d...

September 19, 2018 2 min read

Scotland's Aberdeen med students to get clinical training in Sri Lanka's Asiri Hospitals

Sri Lanka's listed Asiri Hospital Holdings says it will make foreign medical degree programmes more affordable by tying ...

August 27, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka CT Holdings to build multiplexes, mini-malls

Sri Lanka's CT Holdings Plc is planning to revive defunct single theatres as multiplexes and build mini-malls in several...

August 8, 2018 2 min read

Kuwaiti couple given bail after Sri Lanka airport brawl

The Negombo magistrate has released on personal bail a Kuwaiti couple arrested over an assault that resulted in the hosp...

July 28, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka Design Week 2018 to uplift local talent

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka Design Week 2018 organised by the University of Moratuwa is attempting to place the country on th...

July 24, 2018 2 min read

Indian healthcare firm expands into Sri Lanka with ADB funds

ECONOMYNEXT - Asian Development Bank (ADB) will invest 10 million US dollars in India's DCDC Healthcare Services Private...

July 3, 2018 1 min read
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Sri Lanka to sack postal workers if strike continues

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government issued an ultimatum to striking postal workers Monday, ordering them to r...

June 18, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka housemaid underpaid for 8-years in Saudi Arabia

A Sri Lankan housemaid who had worked for eight years in Saudi Arabia without getting the agreed salary had won 64,000 r...

June 17, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka mulls price controls on private hospital charges

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government is considering imposing price ceiling on charges at private hospitals...

June 13, 2018 1 min read

New magazine targets Sri Lanka’s growing elderly population

ECONOMYNEXT – A non-profit outfit in Sri Lanka is to launch a magazine targeting the island’s growing numb...

March 27, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's embattled private teaching hospital up for sale

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Neville Fernando Teaching Hospital belonging to the country's only private medical school is u...

March 8, 2018 2 min read

Rs11.3bn Austrian loan for Sri Lanka water supply projects

ECONOMYNEXT - UniCredit Bank of Austria has agreed to provide 61 million Euro (about Rs11,285 million) in loans to build...

March 8, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Credence Genomics, Apollo Hospitals to offer diagnostic services in India

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Credence Genomics said it has tied up with Apollo Hospitals Group to offer diagnostic services...

January 22, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka urged to clarify incentives for wastewater investments

ECONOMYNEXT – The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has said Sri Lanka needs to clarify incentives for priv...

December 12, 2017 2 min read

Publicis expands Sri Lanka presence with full services of Saatchi & Saatchi

Publicis Groupe is expanding its presence in Sri Lanka by offering the full services of its Saatchi & Saatchi communicat...

October 24, 2017 2 min read

Big Bad Wolf Book Sale opens in Sri Lanka

Big Bad Wolf Book Sale billed as the world's biggest book sale with 1.5 million books, opened in Sri Lanka's capital Col...

October 4, 2017 1 min read